Freight is now part of EasyPost Pro. Compare discounted LTL and truckload rates from 80+ carriers, book shipments, generate the Bill of Lading (BOL), and track freight alongside your parcel shipments, all within the account you already use.
Occasional freight is expensive freight
A shipper moving thousands of parcels a month might move only a handful of pallets. That volume rarely earns negotiated freight rates, so each load goes out at list price or with a broker’s margin built into the quote. The quoting process adds to the bill. Getting competing quotes means calls, emails, and separate carrier logins, so most loads go to whoever handled the last one.
Where the work breaks down after the quote
Booking usually happens in a different system from the quote. Shipment details get re-keyed into a separate BOL form, and a wrong freight class or weight can trigger a billing adjustment. If the paperwork isn’t ready, the driver leaves without the load and the order slips a day. Once the truck pulls away, the shipment drops out of view. Status lives in a carrier portal or on a phone call, outside the system your team checks for every other order. When finance asks what freight cost last quarter, the answer is in the broker’s statement, and someone has to match it to parcel spend by hand.
What changes when freight sits next to parcel
Slow quotes, re-keyed BOLs, and missing tracking all trace back to freight living in a different system than parcel. In EasyPost Pro, freight ships from the same application as your parcel, with the same screens, workflow, and tracking:
- You get discounted rates EasyPost has already negotiated with 80+ LTL and truckload carriers. Price and transit time show side by side while the order is still on your screen, so you pick the carrier that fits this load instead of the one you used last time.
- The BOL is generated when you book. Quote to booked shipment happens in one session. Shipment details are entered once, and the paperwork is ready at the dock.
- Freight tracking lives in the account you already check. LTL and truckload shipments sit beside parcel shipments, with the same tracking.
- Freight spend lands in the same reporting as parcel spend. Monthly freight cost is already in the account when finance asks for it.
- There’s nothing new to set up. No separate freight account, contract, portal, or integration credentials. You choose the carrier, see the rate, and keep the shipment data in your own account.
How booking a load works
- Enter shipment details. Add origin, destination, pallet count, weight, dimensions, and freight class, plus any accessorials.
- Compare rates and book. See discounted LTL and truckload rates with transit times side by side, then book the one that fits the order.
- Print the BOL and track. Download the Bill of Lading, hand it to the driver, and follow the shipment in EasyPost Pro.
When to keep the freight rates you have
If you’ve negotiated strong freight discounts on the lanes you ship most, keep using them. EasyPost Freight gives you another set of rates to compare against, which helps most on lanes you ship rarely, when you don’t have a freight contract, and when an existing contract comes up for renewal. Whichever rate you book, the shipment, the BOL, and the tracking stay in the same account as your parcel orders. Freight rates are available on EasyPost Pro, not EasyPost Suite. If you ship on Suite and pallet orders have become a regular part of the week, ask your account team whether Pro fits your operation.
Start with your next pallet order
The fastest way to find out whether EasyPost Freight rates beat your current setup is to price a real load against them. Send EasyPost a few recent freight shipments, and EasyPost will run a free analysis comparing its rates to what you paid on those lanes.
See what your last few loads should have cost
Send us a few recent freight shipments. We’ll compare discounted LTL and truckload rates in EasyPost Pro to what you paid, lane by lane.
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